Some early sources name this written sign revia gadol or revia qaton ("large" or "small squatting") depending on the syntactic context; other sources make no distinction between the two. Given the sign's more restrained meaning in the psalmodic system, Haïk-Vantoura called it revia qaton when used there. Here is the original gesture, as reconstructed by me.

In Letteris, Ginsburg, et al., revia qaton appears as a square dot; in manuscripts, a simple dot. The ta`am marks an appogiatura to a major or minor second below the sustained note, rather like zaqef qaton (yet without sharing the latter's written or gestural form).

Quite frequently, revia qaton appears in combination with geresh; the combination is called revia mugrash by the early treatises. Geresh always appears over the first syllable; revia, over the stressed syllable. Where the first and the stressed syllables coincide, or on a one-syllable word, the two signs always appear together over the syllable (except in some manuscripts and printed editions that arbitrarily drop the revia in such cases!). Commonly these two te`amim are also combined with silluq (when acting as "ga`ya"). The fixed order (when silluq is not involved) is shown to the left: first the geresh, then the inevitable return to the rest position by the right hand, and finally the revia.

Updated December 27, 2011